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Cisco launches UCS rack servers, CNAs
October 9, 2009 -- Cisco is diving deeper into the data center with the additions of rack-mount servers, memory extension technology, and a new line of converged network adapters (CNAs) to its Unified Computing System (UCS).
Lab Review: Streaming multiple VM backups to minimize RTO
June 15, 2009 -- To meet a minimal recovery time objective (RTO), IT needs software that can run multiple VM backup processes in parallel, as well as HBAs, such as Brocade's 815 and 825, that are capable of streaming full-duplex I/O at wire speed.
Lab Review: SAN clarity in a virtual cloud
February 2, 2009 -- For IT administrators, all of the popular HBAs, whether from Brocade, Emulex or QLogic, provide a GUI-based management application. The important issue then becomes the ease and quickness with which IT administrators manipulate those managed-object hierarchies when performing SAN maintenance and problem discovery tasks.
Hifn ships dual-function storage NIC
January 27, 2009 -- Hifn is now offering the Express DS 4100, a multifunction PCI NIC with bandwidth optimization and encryption features aimed at storage applications that move data across Ethernet networks.
Brocade rolls out 8Gbps HBAs, switches
May 16, 2008—As Brocade builds momentum for its vision of unified networks in the data center, the company continues to roll out real-world hardware to support users suffering the limitations of existing fabrics as they deploy virtual server and storage infrastructures.
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Guidelines for FCoE deployment - Infostor
... These combine the functionality of Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel HBAs in an FCoE environment, enabling users to reduce the number of server adapters they ...

Guidelines for FCoE deployment - Infostor
... These combine the functionality of Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel HBAs in an FCoE environment, enabling users to reduce the number of server adapters they ...

How to control the storage impact of virtual servers - Infostor
... Another option, N_Port virtualization (NPIV), allows a single HBA to support multiple virtual host bus adapters (vHBAs). Each guest ...

SAN management user case study, part 2 - Infostor
... performance problems? They do have limitations. They provide a snapshot of the SCSI conversations from HBAs to-and-from disks. But if ...

Data deduplication for real tape - Infostor
... (2) Intel Xeon dual-core CPUs -- (2) 1Gbps NICs -- (2) 4Gbps dual-port FC HBAs -- 8TB RAID-6 storage -- Spectra BlueScale Web Interface. HOW WE TESTED: ...

Lab Review: Data deduplication for real tape - Infostor
... (2) Intel Xeon dual-core CPUs -- (2) 1Gbps NICs -- (2) 4Gbps dual-port FC HBAs -- 8TB RAID-6 storage -- Spectra BlueScale Web Interface. HOW WE TESTED: ...

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ESG Automating Away the Data Migration Blues
Data migrations and consolidations are expensive, time consuming and difficult. For years, they have been manually intensive, error prone projects. SANpulse has ...